Word: cornelia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Topping the assorted items in TIME'S People department of Nov. 13 there is one concerning a certain Cornelia Otis Skinner, described as a "monologuist," who says: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...
Said Monologuist Cornelia Otis Skinner, interviewed in New Orleans: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...
...just as good as he thinks he is. For although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...
...poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray, Donna Read is married at last. Her mother couldn't stop her this time. . . . McKinley Schumpf ate too much peanut butter Wednesday...
Helen ("Piddle") and Cornelia ("Tobe") Storm, believed oldest spinster twins in the East, descendants (7th generation) of Dutch Immigrant Dirck Storm (1653), gave their 84th birthday party at Fishkill, N. Y. To their 50-odd guests the sisters proudly displayed a letter of congratulations sent by Dutch-descended Franklin D. Roosevelt...